The cellist Pablo Ferrández was born in 1991 in Madrid and studied at the prestigious Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with Natalia Shakhovskaya and at the Kronberg Academy with Frans Helmerson. He also held a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. In 2015 he won the fourth prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He is an exclusive artist with the record label Sony Classical, with whom in 2021 he released his debut album Reflections, featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Manuel de Falla and Enrique Granados. For this recording he received an Opus Klassik award in the category ‘Newcomer of the Year’.
Highlights of recent years have included his debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniele Gatti, along with performances of Brahms’s Double Concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Khatia Buniatishvili. He has also given concerts with orchestras including the London and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.
During the 2021/22 season he made debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Czech Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He also performed with the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra.
In January 2022, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, he performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Daniil Trifonov and the Russian National Youth Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. He recently also gave a chamber music concert with Anne-Sophie Mutter at New York’s Carnegie Hall. In addition, he was artist in residence with the Orquesta de València during the 2021/22 season.
As a recitalist and chamber musician, Pablo Ferrández has collaborated with artists such as Vadim Repin, Martha Argerich, Denis Kozhukhin, Gidon Kremer, Yuja Wang, Nikolai Lugansky, Beatrice Rana, Maxim Rysanov, Ray Chen, Alice Sara Ott, Elena Bashkirova, Luis Del Valle and Sara Ferrández.
He plays the Stradivarius instrument ‘Lord Aylesford’ (1696), on loan to him from the Nippon Music Foundation.
